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An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases

The Episcopal Church — at its General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky — is about to elect a new leader to replace Bishop Michael Curry

Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, has become the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church

The Homeland Security Department says arrests for illegal border crossings have dropped more than 40% during the three weeks asylum processing has been suspended

President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex

Texas is preparing for an execution Wednesday

The state of Texas has executed a man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001

The fate of Karen Read is in the hands of jurors after a two-month murder trial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend

The fate of Karen Read is in the hands of jurors after a two-month murder trial in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend

The devastation from floodwaters was coming into focus for residents and officials near McCook Lake in North Sioux City, South Dakota, as water receded after days of heavy rains around the Midwest